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My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Uplifting, Nature, Opera
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.58, Courier Corporation

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Nature, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod”, p.133, Trajectory Inc

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

Henry David Thoreau
Perseverance, Nature, Winning
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Summer, Nature

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Animal, Garden
'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Henry David Thoreau
Long Distance Relationship, Nature, Taken
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Winter, Eight
'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Nature, Eye
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Names, West
"Walking" (1862)

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Nurse, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.45, University of Georgia Press

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Sorrow, Environment
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.17, Courier Corporation

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau
Good Morning, Nature, Good Day
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

Henry David Thoreau
God, Mother, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.265, Xist Publishing

For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Hunting, Race
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.70, Trajectory Inc

Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Men, No Friends
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Goodbye, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is a similarity between her operations and man's art even in the details and trifles. When the overhanging pine drops into the water, by the sun and water, and the wind rubbing it against the shore, its boughs are worn into fantastic shapes, and white and smooth, as if turned in a lathe. Man's art has wisely imitated those forms into which all matter is most inclined to run, as foliage and fruit.

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Running, Art, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.258, e-artnow

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Arrogance, Bees
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Nature, Science
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.221, Courier Corporation

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Cities, Rivers
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Nature, Significant
Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender (2008). “Walden”, p.289, Oxford University Press

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Cost, Curtains
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.208, Jazzybee Verlag

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Rooms
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.172, Yale University Press

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Admirable
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.158

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Air, Progress
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.137

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